News overview

Article on the recently published UNDP Human Development Report about the changes that became evident in the last decade, why universality is required to tackle

Does artisanal mining in DRC feed violence, conflict, underdevelopment and poverty? What impact have recent reforms had? This article attempts an answer.

ISS students and researchers support Myanmar students, teachers and people in the resistance against the military junta.

New post on ISS blog BlISS describing the European Journal of Development Research special issue focusing on youths’ aspirations for change.

In his postdoc-project, Otieno Ong'ayo investigates how diaspora communities have organized transnationally in order to influence local policies.

Open access publishing is important because in this way research becomes accessible even outside the university environment.

The 5 webinars that make up the 'Case for Democracy' Week bring together academics and policymakers in a dialogue on the dividends of democracy. 

Dr Jojo Nem Singh will present ERC-funded research project on rare earth mining and share advice on how to get started on European Research Council grant

To research how mineral exporters can design industrial strategies in pursuit of their national economic and security objectives

Online lecture by Professor Peter Knorringa explaining frugal innovations as simple, affordable, robust innovations developed for/under conditions of scarcity